The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda
Author
Cowie, Robert H.
text
Zootaxa
2015
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1
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quoyana
Ampullacera quoyana
Potiez & Michaud, 1838
: 288
, pl. 28, figs. 17, 18.
Type
material
—
syntypes
: MNHN 4625 (12 spms.).
Type
locality
—“La
Nouvelle-Zélande
”.
Remarks
. Name attributed to Férussac by Potiez & Michaud. Additional
type
material was probably in the Douai Museum, which was destroyed during World War II (
Golding
et al
. 2007
: 25).
Gaudion (1880: 39)
gave the locality as
Australia
. No ampullariids are known from either
New Zealand
or
Australia
. Placed in
Ampullaria
by
Woolacott (1945: 35)
. The shells of MNHN 4625 match the original illustration well. Amphiboloidea; listed as
Salinator quoyana
but under species
incertae sedis
by
Golding
et al
. (2007
: 25).